Kim Possible
Frequency of Evil
Chapter 5
Kim reaching into her backpack pulled out her grappling gun hairdryer and fired it at the table. She figured if she could hook the table she could pull it out from under the scanner or at the very least upset the table so the items wouldn't be scanned.
As the hook neared the table there was a slight paff sound from the ceiling an ultra fine mesh of wires shot down snaring the grappling hook and keeping it from hitting.
"I do learn a few things from my past mistakes!" Drakken shouted victoriously.
Ron deciding if the scanner itself was protected the next best thing was to attack the laser so running he leapt up onto the scanner and started trying to pry out the Pan-Dimensional Vortex Inducer from its niche in the laser.
As the scanner processed the evil signatures from the items on the table it sent the coordinates to the laser and it kicked on while Ron had his hands wrapped around the small canister causing him to scream as pain like he never felt before flowed around and through him.
"Stop it Dr. D. Stop it now or I will!" Shego yelled as she fired up her green plasma fire.
"Shego! You work for me or have you forgotten that little fact?" Drakken snarled at her.
Ron's tugging on the PDVI caused the laser to swivel from the wall it was pointing at to swing wildly around cutting a deep gash on the floor till it finally swung upwards once again, the laser cut neatly through the mesh netting that had stopped Kim's grapple and barely missing the ranting Drakken and came to a stop pointing at a spot on the ceiling directly above him. Ron finally managed with one last scream to jerk the PDVI canister from the laser. A wild power surge then threw the poor guy from the laser across the room to crash back into the exact same support pillar he had been hurled into earlier, the slightly smoking PDVI canister still clutched in his hands.
A portal briefly flared to life above Drakken's head and a small cube like item fell from it to conk him on the head. The portal then flared and vanished.
"Ron!" Both Shego and Kim yelled at the same time and rushed to his side.
"Ouch!" Drakken said as he held in front of him the cube that had fallen from the portal.
As Kim helped Ron to his feet he immediately held out the PDVI canister to her and she quickly slipped it into her backpack.
"Are you okay? That was incredibly stupid thing to do! You could have been fried by that laser!" Kim shouted at him.
Shego stood to one side and stared at him.
"Had to stop a portal from opening, who knew what would come through this time?" Ron muttered as he rubbed his forehead.
"Your heart is bigger than your brain, you know that?" Shego replied shaking her head.
Ron didn't hear her however, his head was killing him and he kept hearing what sounded like dozens of screeching monkeys all yelling something different at him in English all at the same time. Ron looked over at Drakken as he tried to get his eyes to focus. Suddenly the monkey screeching in his head formed one word. "DANGER!"
Suddenly Ron darted from Kim's hold and past Shego in a blink of an eye. He was moving much faster than any human should have a right to. All Ron could think of was he had to stop Drakken before the doctor did something incredibly foolish that would end all of their lives. The Mystical Monkey Power inside of him was in full control and what was even scarier to Ron was the power was also in total terror.
Drakken continued to examine the small cube in his hands. It had patterns on it and looked somewhat like a puzzle box of some kind. It had came from the evil scanner portal so it must be something powerful and evil but he couldn't figure out what. Giving a shrug he started to twist it to see if the parts of the cube would move like a puzzle box. Seeing a blur out of the corner of his eyes he looked up in just enough time for Ron to reach out and put a hand on the box in his hands.
That was when the cube started to twist and turn on its own.
Shego and Kim Possible blinked. One moment Ron was being helped to his feet by Kim and the next he was gone in a blur. Looking over at Drakken they spotted Ron. He was holding the cube in Drakken's hands as if he was trying to take it away from the mad scientist but both men were frozen as the cube seemed to be moving on its own power and changing shape.
A loud cracking noise could be heard throughout the lair and suddenly the four walls of the room cracked open revealing long gloomy corridors. From the wall to the right of Shego an ominous chattering noise could be heard.
"Synthodrones! Get this buffoon away from me!" Drakken shouted in fear as Ron continued to try and wrestle the box from his grip.
The synthetic creatures that had up to this point been as still as death suddenly lurched into action and two of them throwing punches caught Ron firmly in the face knocking him back to where Shego and Kim were standing.
Ron clutched his head again as he lay on the floor. The monkey screeching was going nuts inside his head.
Rufus ran over from the table where he had been at and jumping up on Ron's chest he looked at him worriedly.
"Ron are you okay? What's wrong?" Kim asked him worriedly.
"Mystical Monkey Power going nuts. I keep hearing the same two words inside my skull over and over again." Ron managed to get out.
Shego nervous about the strange hallways that had appeared in the walls looked over at him. "What two words?"
"Danger. Death." Ron gasped as he stumbled to his feet. Rufus quickly took refuge in his pocket once again.
Shego didn't look thrilled at the news. "I would have preferred two different words." She muttered to herself as she tried to peer down the corridor closest to her. She thought she could detect some kind of movement and the chattering noise was growing louder.
"What is going on?" Kim asked as she tried to use her Kimmunicator to contact Wade. The Kimmunicator screen however only rapidly flashed through scenes of flowers opening to what looked like medieval torture scenes.
From the corridor behind Ron a female voice whispered. "The cube was used and we have been summoned." Everyone spun around to stare at that corridor and they watched a woman walk out. Or at least it could be assumed she once was a woman at one time. Her skin was gray in coloring as the Gentlemen had been and she was bald as they were but she didn't float in the air but walked normally. She was wearing a black leather looking gown and Shego thought it might have been somewhat sexy in nature if it wasn't for the fact the costume had slits in it where you could see the woman's skin had been cut open and hooks and wires were holding the wounds open so they could continue to weep blood.
Ron gulped as he saw the woman's throat had been cut open and wires came out of her shoulders to embed in her cheeks and wires coming off of those were being used to keep the wound in her throat open so you could see straight through to her voice box. "What are you?" He asked hoarsely.
"We are the Cenobites. Servants of the cube." She replied in the same raspy whisper.
"Aha! So you have to serve the will of who ever holds the cube!" Drakken said victoriously as he held up the cube his hand.
"We serve no mortal's will." A dry cold voice said from behind Drakken.
Spinning around Drakken found himself face to face with a horror from the corridor behind him.
It appeared to be a man. Again at least once it might have been a man. He was tall, gray skinned and also bald but this man had pins driven into his skull in a very rigid and uniformed pattern. His black clothing also had slits in it revealing oozing wounds being held open with wires and hooks. Hanging off various loops and straps on his clothing were a series of knives, hooks and other bladed items.
"If you don't serve the will of whoever holds the cube, why are you here?" Drakken asked nervously as he backed away from him and towards Kim Possible and her group.
"We came to bring our gift." Pinhead said as he ever so slowly started towards the group.
"And what is this gift?" Shego asked.
"Ultimate pleasure and pain." Pinhead intoned.
"Okay…Now you see I can find my own pleasure and I'm not really into pain. Unless of course I'm giving it, so I'll be going now." Shego replied.
"We are here for the ones who used the box." The woman Cenobite behind them said.
Drakken looked down at the cube he was holding in his hands and tossed it over to Ron. "He did it!" He said pointing at Ron.
"You lousy jerk!" Ron shouted back. "I was touching the cube but that was only because I was trying to keep you from using it!"
"It does not matter." Pinhead intoned. "The cube was used and we came. Our gift will not be refused."
Ron turning pale looked around for some escape. The corridor nearest Shego revealed a creature that had the skin over its teeth pulled back over its face covering its eyes. Ron couldn't comprehend how the skin could stretch that far or how the creature could see but it obviously had no problem because it was 'staring' at Shego. Shego hadn't turned around yet but could tell by the look of horror on Ron's face there was something behind her, that and the chattering noise was now extremely loud.
"I'm not going to like what I see when I turn around am I?" She asked Ron.
Ron could only shake his head no.
Slowly Shego turned to look behind her and once she spied the hideously deformed monster she leapt backwards away from it and towards Ron and Kim but Shego being Shego she couldn't resist a smart remark. "So I am assuming you have good dental?"
Out of the corridor nearest Kim Possible stepped a dietician's worst nightmare. A Cenobite so round and fat that his folds of flesh had folds themselves. On his fleshy bald head he wore totally black round sunglasses that covered the area where his eyes would normally be visible.
The rotund Cenobite paused at the exit of his tunnel and would occasionally flick the oozing wounds on his body and then lick his lips as if savoring something extremely tasty.
Kim's eyes widened in horror and disgust but she remained in a defensive posture. Slowly she would carefully turn her head and eyes trying to keep all the Cenobites in sight.
Pinhead observed the mortals that had unknowingly summoned him to this strange new world. The fact that it wasn't his own dimension was known to him and frankly he didn't care. Mortals were mortals and pain was pain and that was all he had to know.
"The strange green skinned woman with black hair has a fire about her, both literally with the green glow about her hands and figuratively with her spirit. She might possibly survive the necessary changes to make her into a Cenobite. She already has a dark core." Pinhead thought to himself.
Moving no other part of his body but his eyes, Pinhead studied the other woman before him. "Flaming or perhaps I should say bloody red hair, almost a pity the Cenobite process removes all hair but then again vanity and beauty are merely illusions. Only suffering is real." He observed her reactions to the dark haired woman. "Interesting, she rolls her eyes at the bravado of the woman but tenses, ready to leap to her defense. Not quite a friend but not quite a hated enemy either."
Pinhead then studied Ron. "There is energy about that mortal. He has more hidden depths than any mortal I have ever seen. I doubt he himself even realizes his full potential. He would make an excellent Cenobite recruit. Once his spirit has been broken and he has learned the depths of human suffering and pain."
Chatterer suddenly made a lunge at Shego. Perhaps he had been angered by the dental crack or maybe he was just hungry. In any case Shego with a slight yelp of fear leapt back away from him and almost crashed into the blond haired man. The man put his hands or her shoulders to steady her and Pinhead witnessed the red haired woman's flash of jealousy in her eyes as Shego smiled back in thanks to Ron.
"Fascinating, there are the beginnings of something between those two. Attraction? Lust? Perhaps even love?" Pinhead asked himself. Cenobites understood loyalty and devotion. They were after all loyal and devoted to their dark god Leviathan but a Cenobite could no longer understand the concept of Love. All feelings like Love and Mercy had been burned and tortured out of their very souls.
"So the blond male is protective of the dark haired female and she appreciates the attention if nothing else. What does the blond feel towards the red haired woman?"
With a gesture so subtle no mortal would have detected it, Pinhead sent a command to the Cenobite that most mortals having seen him referred to him as Butterball, that is before they died screaming in pain and agony.
The extremely corpulent Cenobite began moving towards Kim Possible. Kim readied herself for some kind of attack but was surprised when Ron stepped around her placing himself between her and the fat Cenobite.
"Ron? What are you doing?" She asked slightly peeved because he was interfering with her 'mission'.
"Trust me K.P. My Mystical Monkey power is telling me you wouldn't survive a brush with that creature. I'm not dissing your fighting abilities Kim but I can't ignore what the Monkey power is telling me and it tells me you haven't a chance."
"Well what other choice we got?" Shego asked Ron as she continued to back away from Chatterer as he neared her and ended up next to Kim. "They aren't just going to go away if we ask them nicely!"
Ron still keeping an eye on Butterball but occasionally glancing back at Chatterer herding Shego suddenly had a look of a man reaching a hard decision. Holding up the puzzle box that Dr. Drakken had thrown to him, he called out to the obvious leader of the Cenobites, Pinhead.
"You said the cube summoned you and you came to give your gift to the one holding it? Well I'm holding the cube right now! If I were to give myself to you willingly would you let the others go free?"
Kim's face drained of all color till she was nearly as pale as the Cenobites themselves. "WHAT! Ron no! There has to be some other way! I wouldn't be able to live if I knew you were in these monster's hands!"
Pinhead allowed the faintest of grim grins appear on his face. He had deduced correctly. The blond haired man would sacrifice everything to protect the red haired woman.
Ron turned to look into Kim's eyes. For a moment everything else in the universe ceased except for him and Kim. "I would gladly go into the depths of Hell itself if I knew it meant you would live Kim. It is always been the reason I go on these missions, to protect you no matter what the cost."
As everything has to do sooner or later, the moment ended and Ron looked back over at Pinhead.
"Do we have a deal? I give myself over to you and your group and you let everyone here go?"
"Yes. Yes. Take the buffoon and spare me!" Drakken who had been cowering on the floor shouted.
Pinhead didn't even bother to look at him. He was waste. He wouldn't even survive the beginning tortures. Pinhead believed the craven coward might die from sheer fright before they could even do anything.
"Two people were holding the cube when we were summoned." Intoned the female Cenobite standing behind them. "All who summon us must receive our gift."
Ron gave a half shrug. "Sorry dude. I tried. It is after all, your entire fault that we are in this mess in the first place." Ron said glancing over at the nearly crying Drakken. "So if I and Drakken surrender to you will you let Kim and Shego go?" He asked turning back to face Pinhead.
"Take all of them and just let me go!" Drakken shouted and then buried his face in his hands and continued to cower on the floor.
Pinhead tilted his head slightly as if considering. Suddenly the cube in Ron's hands flew across the room to land in Pinhead's palm. Pinhead looked at it for a moment and then casually tossed it behind him to land on the evil scanner table top.
"We are generous with our gifts and you need to learn the pleasure of agony and the pain of loss." He finally said.
Ron's Mystical Monkey power suddenly screamed in his mind. "Danger left! Danger right!"
Reacting instantly Ron dropped to one leg and spinning he kicked out Kim's and Shego's legs out from under them dropping them to the floor. As the two women fell, chains from the tunnels on either side of them shot out. Chains with barbed vicious hooks dripping liquids best not examined too closely and crossed the space they had just a second ago been standing in. If Ron hadn't done a spinning kick right when he had, the girls would have been impaled in the crossfire of hooks and chains.
From his crouched position Ron called deeply on the power inside of him and threw a blue fireball at Pinhead. Even though Ron was almost in shock at what he had done, he still had enough presence of mind to yell at Shego to get the whimpering Drakken and make a break for the exit to the outside world.
Shego nodded her head and drawing on her power she threw a green plasma fireball at Chatterer but to her disgust she saw the fireball impacted harmlessly on his bared teeth.
Chatterer stopped chattering for just a moment and a disgustingly long tongue swept out of his mouth and across his teeth before pulling back into his mouth. His teeth then began chattering even faster as if the taste of Shego's fireballs had excited him.
Grabbing a hold of Kim's hand Ron looked to see what damage his blue mystic energy fireball had done to Pinhead and was disappointed to notice that Pinhead hadn't seem to even notice the blue fire that hit him and danced over his head a moment before going out. Ron realizing the futility of fighting the Cenobites at the moment and started dragging Kim out as Shego boldly picked up Drakken and threw him over her shoulders and raced under the linked chains and followed him out of the room.
The Cenobites continued to stand in place and not move a muscle till the female Cenobite looked over at Pinhead. "We are letting them run?" She asked.
"We have all eternity to break their spirits and torture their souls. Let them run for now. But let's give them an incentive to run as hard as they can." Pinhead turned and looked back down the corridor he had come from. In the gloom of the corridor something could be seen racing down the rough hewn hallway. A spinning pillar with blades, hooks and barbed wire, bits and pieces of organs and body tissue clung to the hooks as the pillar spun.
The pillar of agony swept past Pinhead and out the same exit Ron and his group had used moments ago.